Wednesday, April 7, 2010

GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUES MENTALLY ILL

Panchkula

December 14, 2006

Inadequately clad, he spent yesterday night shivering near the Mansa Devi shrine. This morning, lying unattended on the road, he was about to be run over by a car speeding out of the temple premises when a good Samaritan came to his rescue.

The president of the Jeewan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya, Mr Mansa Ram Ahuja, who had gone to the shrine to pay obeisance today, saw him shouting at passersby.

“Suspecting that he was mentally unstable, I tried to placate him. When nothing worked, he was taken to General Hospital, Sector 6,” he says.

At the hospital, too, he created a ruckus in the Emergency Ward and ran around all over the hospital “trying to find a place to hide from terrorists”. Finally, the hospital staff managed to catch hold of him and carried out an ECG with great difficulty.

Finding him to be fit and not in need of any immediate treatment, the “unknown patient” was referred to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh. “We did not want to waste time conducting various tests and then referring him to a hospital which would be able to provide the institutional care he required. We sedated him and referred him to Chandigarh where there are special wards to take care of mentally unstable patients,” a doctor at the hospital said. TNS

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061215/cth1.htm#15

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